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The Golden Gate
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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The Great California Novel Has Been Written, In Verse (And Why Not?): The Golden Gate Gives Great Joy' Gore Vidal 'A New Star In The Literary Firmament & It Outshines In Brilliance Anything That I Have Seen In Half-A-Century Of Star-Spotting (…more)
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rwmg
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A group of friends look for love in San Francisco around 1980.

I can look on this verse novel as something of a tour de force and it is fun watching the author's verbal dexterity in keeping to the meter, but the actual story is really rather slight.

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rwmg
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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JoeMo
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1. Hell yes I have…as a progressive living in a relatively conservative area, it‘s a good way to meet people.

2. I recommend Golden Gate…a really unique book based in the 80s. One of the characters uses the personal ads to meet someone!

#Two4Tuesday

Yuki_Onna Now I really wonder where you live 🫠 2y
TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2y
JoeMo @Yuki_Onna It‘s the Lancaster/central Pennsylvania area, which is quite conservative for the most part. Some call us the Bible Belt moved north. 2y
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Blueberry
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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Eggs Beautiful!!! 2y
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Jari-chan
The Golden Gate | Vikram Seth
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This book is written in rhymes. Sadly, nobody has told the author that rhymes do not save a boring story, that has already been told a hundred times.